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DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

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post #19

All frontend developers: keep the Flexbox article alive please.

Their Flexbox and Grid guides are the best. I've been using both since pretty much the start and I still look up syntax from them at least once a week.

100% agree with this. I have these pages bookmarked and consistently use them as a reference:

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#92

Hope they keep the site as it is, css-tricks.com has been consistently one of the best, if not the best CSS site around, to the point that I search there for a particular topic before going to general purpose search engines, and you'll frequently find Chris' original articles copypasta'd by "content marketers" anyway. I guess the big time push for CSS3 with ever-changing responsive requirements and new UI idioms of t…

I'm kind of hoping the reverse happens, and the front end devs at Digital Ocean get some lessons in responsive design and browser compatibility. I love the Digital Ocean product, but their dashboard is just full of quirks that give me the impression that the devs there just test things out in Chrome at one window size and then peace-out for happy hour.

Conspiracy theory - digital ocean bought css tricks in order to shut it down in the hopes of decreasing css knowledge so that people don’t realize that their CSS is bad so that they don’t have to pay for a redesign.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#93

Hope they keep the site as it is, css-tricks.com has been consistently one of the best, if not the best CSS site around, to the point that I search there for a particular topic before going to general purpose search engines, and you'll frequently find Chris' original articles copypasta'd by "content marketers" anyway. I guess the big time push for CSS3 with ever-changing responsive requirements and new UI idioms of t…

It covers more than CSS. The 'CSS' part always threw me off reading articles, but I realized early on that JS, HTML & APIs are all part of it.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#94
post #89

This is part of a broader trend. Last year, Balaji Srinivasan tweeted about the idea of SaaS companies buying media companies – https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1374363031417753609 – and as an observer/operator in this space, I've heard about a lot of conversations going on behind the scenes with larger companies expressing an interest in smaller media companies (including my own - I value autonomy too much but for…

Their strategy from the start was to use evergreen technical content to attract devs, to raise the visibility of their products with target customers. It diminishes their early insights to cast this acquisition as merely part of a trend.

DO is smarter than most and has really nailed it with their content development program. When I say "trend" I'm not being negative, I'm speaking about broad industry movements which this deal can still be lumped in with, regardless of how smart or specific any individual deal or buyer is.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#95
post #66
post #15

Wow, pretty big sale! Big congrats to Chris. Interestingly, DigitalOcean has a knack for acquiring these technical dev sites, in 2019 it acquired Scotch.io[0] which was one of the better technical web development sites out there. Fun fact about Scotch, the founder (Chris Sev[1]) sold the site to DO, joined their team, and later managed to broker a deal to 301 redirect a lot of the pages to his new project Better.dev[…

From the headline on better.dev it says "Hey I'm Chris Sev. Here's My Courses", shouldn't it be "Here are my courses"?

From a prescriptive grammar standpoint, you're correct. From a descriptive standpoint, I'm not sure how common that contraction is, but I've heard it before and offhand it seems like it gets used in some regions.

Phonologically, it makes sense that it would gain traction as it's a means of avoiding the effort of the 'ere are' vowel combination. It's an addition rather than an elision, but the underlying motivation of saving effort is the same.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#96
post #85

I don't really understand DigitalOcean's market here. They're obviously. not going after the main cloud players, but it seems strange that they're targeting consumers directly. They spent a lot of time/money crowdsourcing documentation for things that weren't cloud-specific, like patching wordpress, installing apache etc, and now CSS-Tricks. Wouldn't consumers who'd benefit from these sorts of tutorials prefer a prop…

> I don't really understand DigitalOcean's market here

DO is loved by developers, and so is CSS Tricks. DO bought it because of the cozy relationship CSS Tricks has with developers and vice-versa.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#97
post #66
post #15

Wow, pretty big sale! Big congrats to Chris. Interestingly, DigitalOcean has a knack for acquiring these technical dev sites, in 2019 it acquired Scotch.io[0] which was one of the better technical web development sites out there. Fun fact about Scotch, the founder (Chris Sev[1]) sold the site to DO, joined their team, and later managed to broker a deal to 301 redirect a lot of the pages to his new project Better.dev[…

From the headline on better.dev it says "Hey I'm Chris Sev. Here's My Courses", shouldn't it be "Here are my courses"?

If it is the possessive article (‘my courses’) then you are correct. If it is a name for the product ‘My Courses’, then Chris is correct.

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#98
post #19

All frontend developers: keep the Flexbox article alive please.

I would love to see what % of their visits is the flexbox article.

Well at least 50% of that % is me forgetting which is justify-content and which is align-items...

Words are hard

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#99

Hope they keep the site as it is, css-tricks.com has been consistently one of the best, if not the best CSS site around, to the point that I search there for a particular topic before going to general purpose search engines, and you'll frequently find Chris' original articles copypasta'd by "content marketers" anyway. I guess the big time push for CSS3 with ever-changing responsive requirements and new UI idioms of t…

Are there any similar websites but for web development in general (not just CSS)? Because this one is amazing! The insane amount of SEO spam articles you get whenever you look for guides/examples on Google makes it almost impossible to rely on just searching on Google when you need it. So I'm finding myself having to go back to looking for curated lists of quality websites...

There used to be many blog posts by web designers showing up for inspiration - a weird mix of nerds, oriental ladies, and self-taught experts pushing the limit and genuinely in search of the one proper visual representation of some piece of content. I think people underestimate how much of what we take for granted on the web today was pioneered by these folks. sitepoint, alistapart used to be good as well (w3fools, not so much).

Re: DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks

#100
post #66
post #15

Wow, pretty big sale! Big congrats to Chris. Interestingly, DigitalOcean has a knack for acquiring these technical dev sites, in 2019 it acquired Scotch.io[0] which was one of the better technical web development sites out there. Fun fact about Scotch, the founder (Chris Sev[1]) sold the site to DO, joined their team, and later managed to broker a deal to 301 redirect a lot of the pages to his new project Better.dev[…

From the headline on better.dev it says "Hey I'm Chris Sev. Here's My Courses", shouldn't it be "Here are my courses"?

From the headline on better.dev it says "Hey I'm Chris Sev. Here's My Courses", shouldn't it be "Here are my courses"?

It's the difference between written English and spoken English.

In conversation, it's not unusual for someone to use "here's" in this context. To be correct, especially for display in print or on a screen, the correct words are "here are."

I think that people use "here's" instead of "here are" because "here are" can be difficult to say quickly in conversation, and can sound like "herere," which is indistinct and unpleasant-sounding.

The internet has popularized the use of spoken English online because most English speakers speak English well enough, but fewer English speakers write English well.

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